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Commission pays Microsoft each year 226EUR for its office infrastructure. Commission has approx 36,000 users. Make the math. Commission makes also "open" tenders which prefers Microsoft products.
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In order to find out what your members of European Parliament are doing, you need some special software. Europe by Satellite (EBS) is only for those people who have the right software.
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In 2000 Tauchert spoke open about the commercial benefit of the patent system for patent examiners and the lack of need for economic analysis.
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This press release of SUEPO, the Staff Union of the EPO, says everything about the problems of the institution.
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And Commissioner Nelly Kroes responds on behalf of the Commission.
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The ICT at the crossroads document of the Commission failed to address the field of Open Source in the line with the Lisbon strategy, finds Romeva i Rueda. The problem he identifies is the promotion of patented standards.
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The Trilaterals report shows that the EPO tries to get some economists on board. To get the perspective right they dismiss a microeconomic approach as a macroeconomic report would be more suitable to support strategic considerations.
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The access to patent data discriminates user of the Ubuntu Operating system.
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It is almost impossible to buy a laptop without Microsoft Windows pre-installed, and it is almost impossible to buy an Apple iPhone without a subscription to a particular phone provider.
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An MEP has written a question on the use of patented standards within public administrations. The position of the DG Enterprise is definitely to prefer RAND patented standards, and exclude free software from public administrations.
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The Commission has issued a communication to the Council and Parliament on Digital TV, where they mention the problem of patents and open standards for the DVB-H standard, which is subject to a patent tax in the form of royalties collected by MPEG-LA.
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A report on "Cultural Industries" will be adopted next Tuesday in the European Parliament (CULT committee) which is requesting the suspension of internet connections for those who download, together with mandatory internet filtering measures for ISPs all over Europe. The amendment is proposed by british MEP Christopher Heaton-Harris. Some other amendments also covers "P2P website designers". It might be a good idea to contact MEPs members of CULT and ask them to reject this intrusive proposal.
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Marks & Clerk, a patent attorneys firm, is organizing a pro-software patent conference "Software Patents - What IT Practitioners Need To Know" in London next 31st January. From the lawyers point of view: "Many American businesses are adept at using software patents to their advantage".
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Representatives of the European open source software industries gathered in Berlin 10th of January 2008 to found a network of European Open Source SMEs. The purpose of the network is to create a voice for the thousands of SMEs which are a currently under-represented industry and a vital part of the European economy.
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Crest discusses the export of the patent system: "Internationalisation of R&D - Facing the Challenge of
Globalisation: approaches to a proactive international policy in S&T
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Avril Doyle wonders why McCreevy said that "tax harmonisation is not on the agenda" and "would undermine competition". As an Irish Finance minister McCreevy benefited his nation and American IT corporations through ruininous tax competition and patent taxation dumping. Doyle wants the Irish taxploitation to stay.
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FFII will be present at the 24C3 Chaos Communications Congress in Berlin with a dedicated booth, a speech on <NO>OOXML and a lightning talk on EU-EPLA.
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Public Relations is an entertaining art of painting with phrase clusters, but that art is dying out and invites new craftsmen to take advantage.
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EU Commission starts working on second antitrust case against Microsoft, for abuse of its dominant position to exclude competitors from office document interoperability, the email and calendar market, and to capture the web application market.
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The European Commission has announced last week that they will seek a mandate to negotiate major new international anti-counterfeiting pact at the global level. The European Commission is also including strong IPR chapters in all its new generation of Free Trade Agreements with India, Korea, ASEAN and Latin America.
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